e rn moving fcho resolution of sympathy with Ireland at yesterday’s mass meeting at Newtown Park, the Rev. Father Gilbert, M.A., said: —“England, proud and mighty; England, rich and prosperous; how well could she afford to be just and generous to the Irish people!—and only by being just and generous wiU she win from Ireland what she will never otherwise* get—their abiding friendship and goodwill. It may be —it will be—said that both you and I are disloyal. WelL let it be said. VVe find ourselves in the goodly company of Herbert Aeguith, Davidson of Canterbury, the British Labour Party, V aughan, whose ancestors were knighted on the battlefields of Europe centuries ago. If we are traitors so nro they. If they are patriots so are we. In the spirit of freedom and undismayed by any conspiracy of silence let us record our vigorous protest against wrong and injustice done to tho land of our fathers.” The members of the Karoni llifle Club •Till fire the concluding stage of the C.A.C. Cup match at Trentknm to-mor-row, at ranges of 300, 500 and 000 yards, seven shots at each range.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10852, 18 March 1921, Page 7
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